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The Mandrake

6.3

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Original title

La mandragolaaka

AKA

Mandragola: The Love Root

Year

1965

Running time

108 min.

Country

Italy

Director

Alberto Lattuada

Screenwriter

Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Magni, Stefano Strucchi. Play: Niccolò Machiavelli

Cast

Music

Gino Marinuzzi Jr.

Cinematography

Tonino Delli Colli (B&W)

Producer

Co-production Italy-France;

Arco Film Roma

Genre

Comedy | 16th Century

Synopsis

The passage of time has vitiated "Mandragola," Machiavelli's cynical lampoon of 16th-century Florentine morality and the fabulous fertility attributes of the mandrake root. As presented in the Italian period comedy that was exposed at the Cinema Rendezvous yesterday, the satire and the legend, which is as ancient as the Book of Genesis and credulous human beings, are relayed with the approximate subtlety of jokes at a bachelor dinner. The critical thrusts at a dissolute, often irresponsible society that made "Mandragola" a classic of Italian literature are all too rare in this energetic, if obvious and broadly played farce.

Awards: 1966: Nominated for Oscar: Best Costume Design (B&W)

1965: David di Donatello Awards: Golden Plate (Rosanna Schiaffino)

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The Mandrake

1965

Alberto Lattuada

6.3

(83)